Category Archives: Systems

List full name of rpm packages installed

Sometimes when checking on installed Red Hat packages it’s helpful to see the full package name, especially when you’re trying to distinguish between x86 and x86_64 versions. Here’s a handy one-liner for that:
rpm -q [PACKAGE_NAME] –qf “%{name}-%{version}-%{release}\
.%{arch}\n”
What this will get you is something like this:
rpm -q glibc –qf “%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}\n”
glibc-2.5-24.x86_64
glibc-2.5-24.i686

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Limiting logon hours on Windows XP

This is for my fellow parents out there.
Windows Vista has a nice graphical tool for restricting logon hours for individual user accounts on the system. It’s basically a reworking of what’s been available to Windows network admins for years, first on NT and later versions — including Windows XP Professional and Home Edition.
After [...]